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Quantum information theory is a multidisciplinary field whose objective is to understand what happens when information is stored in the state of a quantum system. Quantum mechanics provides us with a new resource, called quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Nicolas Dutil

We discuss a specific entanglement distillation scheme under the constraint of finite samples of entangled qubit pairs. It is shown that an iterative process can be explicitly formulated. The average fidelity of this process can be enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Probst-Schendzielorz , Thorsten Bschorr , Matthias Freyberger

The goal of an entanglement distillation protocol is to convert large quantities of noisy entangled states into a smaller number of high-fidelity Bell pairs. The celebrated one-way hashing method is one such protocol, and it is known for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Thomas A. Hahn , Ryan White , Hannes Bernien , Rotem Arnon

In an entanglement distribution network, the function of a quantum switch is to generate elementary entanglement with its clients followed by entanglement swapping to distribute end-to-end entanglement of sufficiently high fidelity between…

A promising quantum computing architecture comprises modules of superconducting quantum processors linked via optical channels using quantum transducers. As quantum transducer hardware improves, a need has arisen to understand the…

Quantum entanglement shared by remote network nodes serves as a valuable resource for promising applications in distributed computing, cryptography, and sensing. However, distributing entanglement with high-quality via fiber optic routes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Liangzhong Ruan , Brian T. Kirby , Michael Brodsky , Moe Z. Win

Near-term and early fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures are expected to exhibit highly non-uniform error rates. In particular, local operations within a chip can be substantially more reliable than operations connecting different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Elisa Bäumer Marty

Entanglement distillation is an indispensable ingredient in extended quantum communication networks. Distillation protocols are necessarily non-deterministic and require advanced experimental techniques such as noiseless amplification.…

Production of quantum states exhibiting a high degree of entanglement out of noisy conditions is one of the main goals of quantum information science. Here, we provide a conditional yet efficient entanglement distillation method which…

High-fidelity entanglement shared between distant quantum systems is an essential resource for quantum communication and computation. Entanglement distillation addresses this need by converting multiple noisy Bell pairs into fewer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Shoham Jacoby , Rotem Arnon-Friedman , Serge Rosenblum

Entanglement distillation is a fundamental information processing task whose implementation is key to quantum communication and modular quantum computing. Noise experienced by such communication and computing platforms occurs not only in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Vikesh Siddhu , Dina Abdelhadi , Tomas Jochym-O'Connor , John Smolin

Entanglement distillation is a key component of modular quantum computing and long-range quantum communications. However, this powerful tool to reduce noise in entangled states is difficult to realize in practice for two main reasons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Vikesh Siddhu , Erick Winston , David C. McKay , Ali Javadi-Abhari

A key ingredient of quantum repeaters is entanglement distillation, i.e., the generation of high-fidelity entangled qubits from a larger set of pairs with lower fidelity. Here, we present entanglement distillation protocols based on qubit…

Quantum network applications impose a variety of requirements on entanglement resources in terms of rate, fidelity, latency, and more. The repeaters in the quantum network must combine good methods for entanglement generation, effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Sijie Cheng , Narayanan Rengaswamy

Efficient entanglement distillation is a central task in quantum information science and future quantum networks. At the core of distillation protocols are the quantum error correction and detection schemes which enhance the fidelity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Zitai Xu , Guoding Liu

Distilling highly entangled quantum states from weaker ones is a process that is crucial for efficient and long-distance quantum communication, and has implications for several other quantum information protocols. We introduce the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Tamoghna Das , Asutosh Kumar , Amit Kumar Pal , Namrata Shukla , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

Entanglement is essential for quantum information processing, but is limited by noise. We address this by developing high-yield entanglement distillation protocols with several advancements. (1) We extend the 2-to-1 recurrence entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yu Shi , Ashlesha Patil , Saikat Guha

Distillation of entanglement using only Gaussian operations is an important primitive in quantum communication, quantum repeater architectures, and distributed quantum computing. Existing distillation protocols for continuous degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Earl T. Campbell , Jens Eisert

Quantum information processing in a modular architecture requires the distribution, stabilization and distillation of entanglement in a qubit network. We present autonomous entanglement stabilization protocols between two superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Nicolas Didier , Jérémie Guillaud , S. Shankar , Mazyar Mirrahimi

Entanglement distillation, the process of converting weakly entangled states into maximally entangled ones using Local Operations and Classical Communication (LOCC), is pivotal for robust entanglement-assisted quantum information processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Christopher Popp , Tobias C. Sutter , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr